Tuscarawas Valley spared by strong storms

Overnight storms that devastated parts of the Midwest apparently spared the Tuscarawas Valley of any major damages.

TimesReporter.com staff report

Overnight storms that devastated parts of the Midwest apparently spared the Tuscarawas Valley of any major damages.

Dover police received a report at about 9:30 p.m. Sunday that a tree limb was downed at Saltwell Road and Route 39. The road remained closed at 11:30 a.m. today.

Otherwise, "We lucked out," said Rod Hall, a Dover police dispatcher, noting that police had no reports of power outages.

The Tuscarawas County Sheriff's Department received only one call that deputies determined was related to Sunday night's high winds.

A River Road SW, Port Washington, resident reported at 10:09 p.m. that she returned home to find the door of her pop-up camper was open, and she believed that someone had entered it because it had been bolted shut.

Deputies, however, said it appeared that the door had been opened by the wind, as there were no signs of forced entry and nothing was missing.

Statewide, a line of strong late season thunderstorms with possible tornadoes and winds gusting to 70 miles per hour moved across Ohio late Sunday breaking poles and knocking down power lines in several areas of AEP Ohio's service territory, according to an AEP release. The severe weather has effected service for both transmission and distribution customers.

At the height of the storm at 9 p.m. Sunday, approximately 33,500 AEP Ohio customers were without power. As of 10 a.m. today, approximately 7,800 customers remain without power. The hardest hit areas include Paulding and Lima in western Ohio and Canton in northeast Ohio. The majority of customers still without power are in the company's Paulding service area in western Ohio.

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